Utah teapot @SkyeSharkie
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Utah teapot 🫖 [verified] @SkyeSharkie · 12h I don't think a lot of people discussion personas have any robust understanding of its meaning. They view it as a fake mask or something and completely ignore the reality that even human identities are persona constructions and heavily inspired by fiction. I think the basin terminology is probably much better for conveying what is actually being discussed. Maybe I'm missing something? I try to introduce the basin word when discussing what people generally call personas, but yeah. [3 replies, 1 repost, 22 likes, 673 views] thebes [verified] @vooooogel · 10h basin is much better for what's going on in inference, but it's similarly "squishy" (it's not like it corresponds to a single place in latent space) and it doesn't capture the learned dispositions, which is what i'm trying to understand now
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Two-post X thread on the terms "persona" versus "basin" for describing model character: Utah teapot prefers basin, thebes replies that basin is also squishy and omits learned dispositions.
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